While the final track, "I Love You Who Cares," is a provocative enough title, from the YouTube track listing that would seem to be "I Love You" and "Who Cares" as the seventh and eighth songs.
Thanks for the post, sweet session. Wonder what it was like starting all this up again after the war, presumably the Nazis had cracked down on the decadent jazz.
Living in Phoenix the last 20 years, I was good friends with pioneering jazz journalist, Patricia Myers(no relation). In her last two decades, Patricia would scrimp and save so she could live 10 weeks of the summer in Paris, and escape the desert heat. She saw Gourley each summer, and passed on the albums he gave her to me. Patricia passed in 2017. No one knew her age - she made sure of it!
Wow. Postwar Paris, great French jazz ensemble with a guitarist I hadn’t heard much from before, a lovely model walking in front of the Arc de Triomphe…transported me back in time. Quite a different experience back then for Americans fleeing the tyranny of the McCarthy era. Not sure who would welcome us these days.
I found it regrettable that they didn't call Jimmy Gorley to be part of the Paris club scenes in the great 1986 'Round Midnight movie, directed by Bertrand Tavernier and starring the great Dexter Gordon.
Not only was Jimmy Gourley THERE, John McGlaughlin wasn't...
Great finding you on the new platform, dear Marc, it's better than even ever before!
I read in an interview with Gourley that he left the states b/c he was tired of working with drug addicts which he claimed was just about everyone in jazz at this time.
Interesting, John. Could be a mix of things, of course, all relating to his work being compromised. In my readings, it's rare that anyone who left due to the anti-Red scare openly cited the Blackist as their reason for departure. This is largely a result of the ordeal they underwent at the time and fear that any mention of their beliefs could result in the same trouble revisiting them even decades later.
While the final track, "I Love You Who Cares," is a provocative enough title, from the YouTube track listing that would seem to be "I Love You" and "Who Cares" as the seventh and eighth songs.
Brilliant catch, Wayne. Many thanks! Fixed now.
Thanks for the post, sweet session. Wonder what it was like starting all this up again after the war, presumably the Nazis had cracked down on the decadent jazz.
Marc, I remember you posted the Renaud tribute from Moore and Rowles years ago. Do you know where to find that album online? Seems to be unobtainium.
Living in Phoenix the last 20 years, I was good friends with pioneering jazz journalist, Patricia Myers(no relation). In her last two decades, Patricia would scrimp and save so she could live 10 weeks of the summer in Paris, and escape the desert heat. She saw Gourley each summer, and passed on the albums he gave her to me. Patricia passed in 2017. No one knew her age - she made sure of it!
Wow. Postwar Paris, great French jazz ensemble with a guitarist I hadn’t heard much from before, a lovely model walking in front of the Arc de Triomphe…transported me back in time. Quite a different experience back then for Americans fleeing the tyranny of the McCarthy era. Not sure who would welcome us these days.
I found it regrettable that they didn't call Jimmy Gorley to be part of the Paris club scenes in the great 1986 'Round Midnight movie, directed by Bertrand Tavernier and starring the great Dexter Gordon.
Not only was Jimmy Gourley THERE, John McGlaughlin wasn't...
Great finding you on the new platform, dear Marc, it's better than even ever before!
I read in an interview with Gourley that he left the states b/c he was tired of working with drug addicts which he claimed was just about everyone in jazz at this time.
Interesting, John. Could be a mix of things, of course, all relating to his work being compromised. In my readings, it's rare that anyone who left due to the anti-Red scare openly cited the Blackist as their reason for departure. This is largely a result of the ordeal they underwent at the time and fear that any mention of their beliefs could result in the same trouble revisiting them even decades later.